Mark 10:40

But I can’t give you what you want. God is the one that picks the people that will be the important leaders, and he picks the people that will sit beside me later on.”

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared.

In Context

39James and John said, “Yes. We can do that.” So Jesus said, “You are right. You will get the same hard time as me, and you will get bad pain like I will get.

41Jesus’s other 10 special workers heard what James and John asked for, and they got angry.

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Cross References

Matthew 25:34Then I will say to the people on my right-hand side, ‘Come on, you mob. My father is happy with you, so you can be in his family. A long time ago, at the time when he made the world, he made a good place for you. It is ready for you now.

John 17:24Father, you gave me these people, and I want them to be with me. I want them to see that you gave me the same great power that you have. You loved me and gave me that power before we made the world.

Matthew Henry on Mark 10:33-46

Christ's Prediction of His Sufferings. 32 And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should happen unto him, 33 Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles: 34 And they shall mock him, and shall scourge… Read the whole commentary →

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